Ditto! Why does everyone want to emulate Vista? Vista SUCKS, people!!!!! Not to mention, this looks a lot harder to use, period, and this would be a MAJOR setback for KDE if it were to be implemented. Then again, maybe I'm too used to KDE the way it is now, which suits my needs just fine.

It looks really nice. You did attend to detail so your mockup is pretty but looking at the functionality of the start menu, it is not intuitive at all. A start menu should be simple with as few clicks as possible. It should not be a control panel. There are levels of this.

You have quick launch (one click) icons, then you have start meny items which can contain more launchers and save space (not to be burried under directories (2-4 clicks away), then you have a control panel with the variety of options.

If anything, more work on control panels to encompass more and be more user friendly and intuitive is needed, not copying Windows XP start menus. Just because MS says it is, doesnt make it so...

When you said that you designed the menu. Did you meant that you built the whole XPish menu and replaced the kbfx menu with it? or you meant that you made a kbfx button and applied it? And if the kbfx menu (the actual menu, not the button) can be fully changed. WHY EVERYBODY (especially siraj) WANTS IT TO LOOK LIKE F*CKING WINDOZE? WHO THE F*CK PAID YA OR MADE YA LIKE THAT POS LOOK? WHY IS THAT EVERYBODY DISLIKES THE SIMPLE AND CLUTTER-FREE MacOS 9 LIKE MENU?

dude, nobody is forcing you to use this menu, the devs of kbfx are doing this out of their own time, I see you haven't contributed anything to kde-look (artwork) maybe you should do that instead of critizing other peoples work, comments like these are always demoralizing to any devs, either artwork or apps.

I would so use that if it was a working one. It is probably the best looking menu ive seen. Keep up the good work!!! And who ever said it looks like windows is wrong. It is far cooler than the windows menu will ever be!!!

IHMO that was a mistake of M$ to make such "featurized" menu in XP. Not because of the fact it's overloaded & unstructured (again, that's my point of view, i can't say i'm agerage user) but the fact it differs what users saw in 2000 & ME. I do not have such statistics but quite sure the majority of XP users are those migrated from earlier microsoft OS'es. The simplest way to make the user stuck is to change design into completely different. Even if it seems to be simpler to operate the user who got used the prev. variant would be confused much of the new layout.

KBFX exists as you allready might know. But, however, this thing does not. From the title: "Kbfx - Menu Improvement (Mockup) Opinion".
This means that this is a fake screenshot painted in gimp for example and is not installable( - yet).
The creator here want's to hear comments of this concept used in this so called mockup.